A girl I met on Instagram..

As you may know by now we love social media. We have made so many friends over the years. It is quite amazing how you bond over interests, hobbies or style. We met this lovely lady a few months ago.. her name is @fifideer on instagram. You can also find Fi on Twitter.

We asked Fi if she would share some of images of her gorgeous home with our bReathe happiNess readers and she kindly agreed.

Hall (Ideal Home): This photo was taken for Ideal Home by Scottish
interiors photographer Douglas Gibb. It belongs to Ideal Home. I
wanted to include it though because I love our hall and I couldn't get as good
a photo of this angle myself! We found our wee sideboard on ebay, from a
German seller. The deer under the cloche is a little of what remains of my
1960s kitsch phase - aged 21, I filled my first home with flamingos, leopard
print and was always on the look out for little deer for my collection.

Kitchen: This room was actually a second bedroom when we got the flat,
and the kitchen was tucked away in the windowless box room. (we divided
the box room up into a utility room and walk-in wardrobe) Moving the
kitchen to this room was the best thing we did to the flat - I spend so much
time in this sunny room. It is at the front of the flat which looks out
onto Leith Links and a great view of the city beyond. I love our table as
we found it in a junk shop in Edinburgh and it's totally wonky and the surface
is all uneven from years of use/love! I also love my little happy plant
table in the window :)

Living room: Our big, comfy sofa! I'm always changing the
blankets/cushions and prints on the wall. At the moment we the 'up' print
by Fine Little Day, some abstract photography by a friend (it was a
house-warming gift from her), a NoBrow screen print, a wee embroidered quote I
just made which features a line from a song that means a lot to Mike and I and
another NoBrow print with lots of friendly dinosaurs on it.

Living room: This is the view from the big sofa (with the Tv to the
right of the fireplace, and shelves full of magazines). I'm so glad we
put a wood burning stove in to the flat - it's so cosy in the winter. The
big 'Fin' screen print was one of the first prints we bought for the new flat
and it makes me very happy indeed!

Bedroom: Another photo of our little calm bedroom. I love our
Ikea picture ledge over the bed - currently it features 2 lino cut prints given
to me by a good friend before she moved to America - one is called 'home is
where the heart is' and the other 'a good pair' because we made a good pair!, a
screen print of a hare by another artist friend - I swapped her a vintage globe
for it. And a drawing by my lovely Spanish cousin of archie and I (she is
a ridiculously glamorous model who currently lives in India).

Bedroom: This is what we see from our bed. A tv for watching our
favourite DVDs, a calendar page form the month/year we met, and a wee fox that
my Mum made. Our bedroom is a lovely calm and quiet room at the back of
our flat, it looks out over the old industrial warehouses/scrap yards and
towards the sea.

Who lives here?...

Mike, Archie and I. I'm 29 years old and am currently in the
middle of a big build project, turning a 19th century warehouse into a high-end
recording studio which is due to open this summer. I will be charting the
build on a blog which will be live this month. Mike is my
boyfriend and is 27 years old. He is a graphic designer. He is doing all
the branding and web design for the studio. Archie is a 5 year old Boston
Terrier with a penchant for sticks and scrambled eggs.

What type of house do you live in?...

We live in a 1 bed Victorian tenement flat in the Leith area of
Edinbugh. Leith is an area in the east of Edinburgh, by the sea, which
until relatively recently was considered really dodgy (most internationally
famous for where the novel and film Trainspotting is set). But similar to
the east end of London, over the last 10 or so years it has become a really
great place to live with loads of creative agencies setting up offices here and
young people looking for affordable housing. There are so so many
brilliant pubs and restaurants in Leith too and a real mix of cultures and
people.

Describe your dream home?

We have actually been discussing this recently as we are thinking of
moving next year! We want to stay in Leith as we love it and would really
like to get hold of a good project - ideally an old warehouse with a bit of
space to make a garden or just a run down period property. We would love
to live in a mostly open plan space with huge windows, a big kitchen with a big
wooden table and doors out to a wee garden for vegetables. I think we
would decorate in a similar style - using lots of white - but I would like to
incorporate a more industrial/natural feel into our next property.
Basically, a home which looks like an issue of Kinfolk magazine mixed
with a warehouse home in Berlin and a little bit of Scandinavian cabin thrown
in too!

Where do you find inspiration?

Gosh, where to start with inspiration! Pinterest is THE most
wonderful thing ever! I had only just discovered it at the same time as
we got our flat (summer 2011) and it was completely invaluable during the whole
process of re-designing the space (4 months of builders!) and choosing finishes
all well as soft furnishings. I read a lot of blogs - covering design,
lifestyle and fashion - these, combined with magazines provide endless amounts
of inspiration. But, it is when you pin your favourite images onto
Pinterest that you can really see a theme emerging, a pattern of what makes you
really happy. This answer is all a little vague isn't it?! Sorry.
In sum, I find inspiration everywhere! Then I pin it!

We would like to say a massive thank you to Fi for sharing her home and answering our nosey questions. We both love Fi's style and Shaneen is planning to rip off that feather garland as soon as this post is live... look out for its twin appearing on a headboard in Bucks very soon.

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A girl I met on Instagram..

As you may know by now we love social media. We have made so many friends over the years. It is quite amazing how you bond over interests, hobbies or style. We met this lovely lady a few months ago.. her name is @fifideer on instagram. You can also find Fi on Twitter.

We asked Fi if she would share some of images of her gorgeous home with our bReathe happiNess readers and she kindly agreed.

Hall (Ideal Home): This photo was taken for Ideal Home by Scottish
interiors photographer Douglas Gibb. It belongs to Ideal Home. I
wanted to include it though because I love our hall and I couldn't get as good
a photo of this angle myself! We found our wee sideboard on ebay, from a
German seller. The deer under the cloche is a little of what remains of my
1960s kitsch phase - aged 21, I filled my first home with flamingos, leopard
print and was always on the look out for little deer for my collection.

Kitchen: This room was actually a second bedroom when we got the flat,
and the kitchen was tucked away in the windowless box room. (we divided
the box room up into a utility room and walk-in wardrobe) Moving the
kitchen to this room was the best thing we did to the flat - I spend so much
time in this sunny room. It is at the front of the flat which looks out
onto Leith Links and a great view of the city beyond. I love our table as
we found it in a junk shop in Edinburgh and it's totally wonky and the surface
is all uneven from years of use/love! I also love my little happy plant
table in the window :)

Living room: Our big, comfy sofa! I'm always changing the
blankets/cushions and prints on the wall. At the moment we the 'up' print
by Fine Little Day, some abstract photography by a friend (it was a
house-warming gift from her), a NoBrow screen print, a wee embroidered quote I
just made which features a line from a song that means a lot to Mike and I and
another NoBrow print with lots of friendly dinosaurs on it.

Living room: This is the view from the big sofa (with the Tv to the
right of the fireplace, and shelves full of magazines). I'm so glad we
put a wood burning stove in to the flat - it's so cosy in the winter. The
big 'Fin' screen print was one of the first prints we bought for the new flat
and it makes me very happy indeed!

Bedroom: Another photo of our little calm bedroom. I love our
Ikea picture ledge over the bed - currently it features 2 lino cut prints given
to me by a good friend before she moved to America - one is called 'home is
where the heart is' and the other 'a good pair' because we made a good pair!, a
screen print of a hare by another artist friend - I swapped her a vintage globe
for it. And a drawing by my lovely Spanish cousin of archie and I (she is
a ridiculously glamorous model who currently lives in India).

Bedroom: This is what we see from our bed. A tv for watching our
favourite DVDs, a calendar page form the month/year we met, and a wee fox that
my Mum made. Our bedroom is a lovely calm and quiet room at the back of
our flat, it looks out over the old industrial warehouses/scrap yards and
towards the sea.

Who lives here?...

Mike, Archie and I. I'm 29 years old and am currently in the
middle of a big build project, turning a 19th century warehouse into a high-end
recording studio which is due to open this summer. I will be charting the
build on a blog which will be live this month. Mike is my
boyfriend and is 27 years old. He is a graphic designer. He is doing all
the branding and web design for the studio. Archie is a 5 year old Boston
Terrier with a penchant for sticks and scrambled eggs.

What type of house do you live in?...

We live in a 1 bed Victorian tenement flat in the Leith area of
Edinbugh. Leith is an area in the east of Edinburgh, by the sea, which
until relatively recently was considered really dodgy (most internationally
famous for where the novel and film Trainspotting is set). But similar to
the east end of London, over the last 10 or so years it has become a really
great place to live with loads of creative agencies setting up offices here and
young people looking for affordable housing. There are so so many
brilliant pubs and restaurants in Leith too and a real mix of cultures and
people.

Describe your dream home?

We have actually been discussing this recently as we are thinking of
moving next year! We want to stay in Leith as we love it and would really
like to get hold of a good project - ideally an old warehouse with a bit of
space to make a garden or just a run down period property. We would love
to live in a mostly open plan space with huge windows, a big kitchen with a big
wooden table and doors out to a wee garden for vegetables. I think we
would decorate in a similar style - using lots of white - but I would like to
incorporate a more industrial/natural feel into our next property.
Basically, a home which looks like an issue of Kinfolk magazine mixed
with a warehouse home in Berlin and a little bit of Scandinavian cabin thrown
in too!

Where do you find inspiration?

Gosh, where to start with inspiration! Pinterest is THE most
wonderful thing ever! I had only just discovered it at the same time as
we got our flat (summer 2011) and it was completely invaluable during the whole
process of re-designing the space (4 months of builders!) and choosing finishes
all well as soft furnishings. I read a lot of blogs - covering design,
lifestyle and fashion - these, combined with magazines provide endless amounts
of inspiration. But, it is when you pin your favourite images onto
Pinterest that you can really see a theme emerging, a pattern of what makes you
really happy. This answer is all a little vague isn't it?! Sorry.
In sum, I find inspiration everywhere! Then I pin it!

We would like to say a massive thank you to Fi for sharing her home and answering our nosey questions. We both love Fi's style and Shaneen is planning to rip off that feather garland as soon as this post is live... look out for its twin appearing on a headboard in Bucks very soon.